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Re: AZ Regionals: Incorrect Scoring?

Posted By Kevin Sevcik

"First off, this year's scoring system isn't more solid than past years'. I was scorekeeper at Lone Star and the only problem I had was a delicate computer system that had been shaken up rather badly on the back of a semi. It frankly astounds me that we're having scoring problems this year when things were working perfectly well last year."

I'm struggle to see where you came up with that idea, as many of you probably are unaware of, there were serious problems first week of regionals last year. I was up until 3am both wednesday and thursday night making the field and scoring system functional enough to run practice rounds. There have been less updates this year then last year as you might not be aware. This years software is leaps and bounds ahead of last years. Don't get me wrong, TacOps was a great idea and worked well in the end.

I have been scoring regionals for the past 6 years, this year in no way is near as bad as past years. Yes there has been some issues with rankings which is a top priority right now. I'm not sure how many of you know really what it takes to develop a piece of software like this or the time constraints that were in this particular situation.

I know its very easy to get upset at mix ups and such with the scoring, but i'm not sure how many of you have had to be in that seat and be responsible for the scoring at an event. It is a stressful thing and takes alot of patients to deal with team members upset with something.

Posted By JonBell

"At the UTC semifinals, we lost our first match, but then in our second match, we won by two points. However, the judges didn't count one of the tetras, and even though we had the entire field on video, they didn't want to watch the video - we ended up losing by one point and falling out of the finals. We told them right after they put the score up! I guess that I can see where the judges are coming from in that they don't want to waste time reviewing every single play, but perhaps there should be some contingency for ties or 1 point differences in scores?"

I'm not sure who you talked to, I was the score keeper for UTC. I remember two teams approaching me talking about how a tetra was there and the ref's missed it. You must realize any video tape or pictures when brought to the attention of the ref's, really is a moot poin as they will not review it as stated in the rules.

I think people need to realize really what it takes to put this competition on. FIRST is very aware of the issues at hand and are working at them in a timely manner. I think people need to step back, take a deep breath, and calm down about this whole situation. When issues come up, they get resolved, simple as that.